for-loops that run at least once and "Possibly unbound" · microsoft/pyright · Discussion #2033
https://github.com/microsoft/pyright/discussions/2033The comment by erictraut sums up the attitude of MS / Pyright in general: Python is too permissive and should be written more like "C, C++, JavaScript, TypeScript, Java, C#, Basic, Julia, etc"; rather than attempt to improve support for its dynamic nature, Pyright is being written to type-check a different language.
> Python is unlike most programming languages in that it allows local variables to appear within a scope but have no value bound to them. In all other languages I can think of (C, C++, Javascript, TypeScript, Java, C#, Basic, Julia, etc.), you would be forced to assign a value to a variable on all code paths, and you would receive a compiler/interpreter error if you failed to do so. So if you adapt your usage of Python to be like all other programming languages in this respect, you won't run into any problems with unbound variable errors.
Why Is It So Hard to Build an Airport? - by Brian Potter
https://www.construction-physics.com/p/why-is-it-so-hard-to-build-an-airport> When questioned about aircraft noise by a US congressman in 1962, the head of the FAA stated that “we feel the statement that people must live with noise is realistic in the light of our growing society using complex means of transportation and communication. Noise in urban America is one of the prices paid for progress and economic growth."
This context reframes the contemporaneous Simon & Garfunkel song The Sound[s] of Silence for me.
Antithesis: continuous reliability platform
https://antithesis.com/Completely deterministic execution of code with fault injection. Via HN
Classical music ripped off by popular culture - YouTube
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLGGvLjpNasfaqftQS-q1Jzkta0U-2E_oLjill's new playlist
zsync
http://zsync.moria.org.uk/rsync for individual files over the web
Square Signals : Vegetable stock: my secret lover
https://blog.andymatuschak.org/post/8092537664/vegetable-stock-my-secret-loverPassionate food writing gets me going. The secret subtopic is nasturtium soup, which sounds (at least when he writes it) delicious.
The related HN discussion talks about keeping peels, tops and tails, etc., in a bag in the freezer and using them to make stock.
BAM | Winter/Spring 2024
https://www.bam.org/winter-springNYC stuff
Buy Prepaid eSIM for USA from $0.7 per GB | MobiMatter
https://mobimatter.com/esim-united-statesAnother HN recommendation for roaming / international esim
Local and regional eSIMs for travellers - Airalo
https://www.airalo.com/HN recommendation for roaming / international esim
Simple turnip cake [lo bak go] recipe - Cook Simply
https://cooksimply.co.uk/turnip-cake-recipe-lo-bak-go/I really want to make a turnip cake.
Easy white bread recipe | BBC Good Food
https://www.bbcgoodfood.com/recipes/easy-white-breadDelicious. Though I was a little o_O when it described the concept of preparing the bread one day before and leaving it in the fridge overnight to be a "great timesaver". No time has been saved. In absolute terms some time has been wasted. Reality is a construct. Your perception defines your world.
wwmm/easyeffects: Limiter, compressor, convolver, equalizer and auto volume and many other plugins for PipeWire applications
https://github.com/wwmm/easyeffectsApply various effects on-the-fly to Linux audio using Pipewire.
This was great. Someone on a meeting had random high-pitched noises and I could, on the fly, add an equaliser to attenuate all frequencies about 11 KHz -- minimal impact on voices and noise disappeared!
SaltyBet - Twitch
https://www.twitch.tv/saltybetTwitch stream that plays bots off against each other in the Mugen fighting game. Been going for ages (decades?)
EFIStub - Debian Wiki
https://wiki.debian.org/EFIStub#Setting_up_a_Unified_Kernel_ImageSet up for grub-less Linux booting using EFI stub plus debian hooks
One Hundred and One Monochrome Mazes : John Vaughn / IBM : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive
https://archive.org/details/msdos_One_Hundred_and_One_Monochrome_Mazes_1983Game of the day. It's so monochrome it doesn't work with colour graphics adapters.
What’s inside popular disposable vapes? Let's open and take them apart!
https://disposavapes.co.uk/disassembling-popular-vapes/The activation mechanism is a microphone, which is pretty interesting.
What does the Cerebellum Do Anyway? - by Sarah Constantin
https://sarahconstantin.substack.com/p/what-does-the-cerebellum-do-anywayHN
Understanding SameSite cookies
https://andrewlock.net/understanding-samesite-cookies/One key annoyance is that from 2016 to 2019, omitting SameSite meant SameSite=None. From 2019 onwards, omitting SameSite meant SameSite=Lax. As of 2023 (https://caniuse.com/same-site-cookie-attribute), Safari and Firefox use the pre-2019 behaviour.
The Quiet Man (video game) - Wikipedia
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Quiet_Man_(video_game)"Exhausting and miserable time". "Spectactular disaster". But the Imogen Heap accompanying song is quite sweet.
Intel iAPX 432 - Wikipedia
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intel_iAPX_432Capability-based, OO-focused processor in 1976
iea-vs-reality-photovoltaics-2018.png 551×455 pixels
https://zenmo.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/01/iea-vs-reality-photovoltaics-2018.png
Thick black line: solar energy capacity added in gigawatts over time. Other lines: international energy agency predictions. Note exponential reality vs flat prediction, what, 10 times in a row?
Is YouTube anti-adblock fixed yet?
https://drhyperion451.github.io/does-uBO-bypass-yt/Browsing Youtube; didn't realise I was in the middle of a fight between some youtube exec and half the Internet.
The Magical Japanese Art of Luggage Forwarding — Ridgeline issue 170
https://craigmod.com/ridgeline/170/"Magical Japan" articles are so 90s but this one on takkyūbin is very well written (hn)
... except that takkyūbin is apparently a trademark and the generic term is takuhaibin (again, the fine pedants of hn)
LIGHTNESS by Italo Calvino : Dancing on the Ceiling: Art & Zero Gravity curated by Kathleen Forde : EMPAC Curtis R. Priem Experimental Media and Performing Arts Center : Troy, NY USA
https://zerogravity.empac.rpi.edu/lightness/to read, related to claire-louise bennett quote
Increasing storage size - UpCloud
https://upcloud.com/resources/tutorials/increasing-storage-sizenonbeard 2023-09-25 11:49:49.753783
Trustworthy and Useful Tools for Mobile Phone Extraction : Horizon
https://www.horizon.ac.uk/project/trustworthy-and-useful-tools-for-mobile-phone-extraction/TUT-MPE, RIME
aff4/pyaff4: The Python implementation of the AFF4 standard.
https://github.com/aff4/pyaff4RIME related forensic data format
CASE Community | Home
https://caseontology.org/RIME related forensics data format
Communications barriers slowed the inrush of the sociopaths into whatever was hi... | Hacker News
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37259448“You might be surrounded by interesting countercultures and not even know about it: whatever properties save them from instant commoditization also keep you out.“ from “is counterculture dead?”
Bypassing Bitlocker using a cheap logic analyzer on a Lenovo laptop
https://www.errno.fr/BypassingBitlocker.htmlSome clever things here: attach the probes to a random SPI flash because it's on the same bus as the TPM and its pins are bigger; overwrite sticky keys with cmd.exe for a simple admin shell without login. (hn)
4 ingredient oat milk that doesn't separate - sarah bassett
https://sarahbassett.co/oat-milk-that-doesnt-separate/There's no avoiding the fat component.
Things you forgot (or never knew) because of React - Josh Collinsworth blog
https://joshcollinsworth.com/blog/antiquated-reactthe world which crowned React king, in many ways, no longer exists.
Creamy courgette pasta recipe | BBC Good Food
https://www.bbcgoodfood.com/recipes/creamy-courgette-pastaDelicious
List of Hollywood-inspired nicknames - Wikipedia
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Hollywood-inspired_nicknamesOlivewood sounds nice.
Building a Chromium-based web kiosk using Yocto/OpenEmbedded | Thomas
https://thomasw.dev/post/yocto-kiosk/that's what I'm doing
Melatonin: Much More Than You Wanted To Know | Slate Star Codex
https://slatestarcodex.com/2018/07/10/melatonin-much-more-than-you-wanted-to-know/Apparently to treat delayed sleep onset you should take it 7 hours before you want to sleep.
Yoshi (genus) - Wikipedia
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yoshi_(genus)There's an extinct species of sabretooth cat called Yoshi obscura.
Lore Olympus: Volume One by Rachel Smythe | Waterstones
https://www.waterstones.com/book/lore-olympus-volume-one/rachel-smythe/9781529150445Queer Greek god sex? Don't know, it was a rec.
Homeobox - Wikipedia
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/HomeoboxA homeobox is a DNA sequence, around 180 base pairs long, that regulates large-scale anatomical features in the early stages of embryonic development.
Something many people don't know about instant noodles: You don't need to cook t... | Hacker News
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36809708You can just soak instant noodles, and also regular pasta. No boiling required!
How to make oat milk recipe | BBC Good Food
https://www.bbcgoodfood.com/recipes/oat-milkI am making my own oat milk. I have ascended.
Create a Palette - Coolors
https://coolors.co/474350-b4bdcf-ffffff-f694c1-000000coat-light colour scheme
Douglas Hofstadter changes his mind on Deep Learning & AI risk (June 2023)? — LessWrong
https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/kAmgdEjq2eYQkB5PP/douglas-hofstadter-changes-his-mind-on-deep-learning-and-aiHofstadter now thinks that LLMs are the future of not just AI but the world
How James Cameron Put Down A Mutiny On The Set Of Aliens
https://www.slashfilm.com/506847/how-james-cameron-put-down-a-mutiny-on-the-set-of-aliens/"This has been a long and difficult shoot, fraught by many problems, but the one thing that kept me going, through it all, was the certain knowledge that one day I would drive out the gate of Pinewood and never come back, and that you sorry bastards would still be here."
Download Carbon Copy Cloner | Carbon Copy Cloner | Bombich Software
https://bombich.com/downloadRandom opinions on the best way to perform mac backups
Mary's homemade sausage rolls recipe - BBC Food
https://www.bbc.co.uk/food/recipes/sausage_rolls_and_veggie_33109puff pastry sausage rolls with thyme
Roasted pepper, beetroot and feta tart recipe - BBC Food
https://www.bbc.co.uk/food/recipes/roasted_pepper_beetroot_03827This was bloody good. No need to deskin the peppers: cut them smaller and cook them for less time.
Roasted deskinned peppers have the mouthfeel of slugs.